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• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. — Saul Bellow
• Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others… — David Bohm
• I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities… — Kazuo Ishiguro
• Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves. — Samuel Johnson
• Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art. — Mason Cooley
• We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better… — Pema Chodron
• How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. — Unknown Author
• The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate… — Unknown Author
• Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his… — Philip Warren Anderson
• Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert A. Heinlein
• A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue,… — Alexander Cockburn

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